Foreign students attending colleges and universities that move fully online cannot remain in the United States (NPR), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced. Students must transfer to schools offering in-person instruction or leave the country. 

The new rule is the Donald J. Trump administration’s latest move to restrict immigration amid the coronavirus pandemic and could affect the hundreds of thousands of international students (Reuters) that are a major revenue source for many colleges and universities. Already grappling with how to safely reopen in the fall, schools are now scrambling to comply (WaPo) with the new regulations. The American Council on Education, a group that represents hundreds of U.S. colleges and universities, condemned the guidelines as “horrifying.”

Lawyers representing two Uighur activists urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate Beijing for genocide and human rights abuses (NYT). The Chinese government has detained as many as one million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in internment camps in the Xinjiang region.

This CFR Backgrounder explains China’s repression of Uighurs in Xinjiang.

​Japan: Fifty people were killed and more than one million urged to evacuate (Yomiuri Shimbun) after torrential rains struck the southwestern Kyushu region.

China began withdrawing troops (Reuters) from its disputed border with India yesterday, Indian government sources said, following a deadly clash last month in which twenty Indian soldiers were killed. Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi discussed the border on Sunday and agreed to a significant disengagement of troops.

CFR’s Alyssa Ayres explains what to know about the border dispute.

Afghanistan: President Ashraf Ghani warned of “serious challenges” (RFE/RL) to the Afghan peace process if attacks by the Taliban continue. He said the level of violence was higher than last year despite the preparation for peace talks.

A U.S. drone strike that killed top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani in January violated international law (Reuters), a UN human rights investigator said. The United States did not provide sufficient evidence of an ongoing or imminent attack against its interests to justify the strike, she said.
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Iraq: A prominent Iraqi researcher, Hisham al-Hashimi, was shot dead outside his home in Baghdad (WaPo). He was a leading expert on the self-proclaimed Islamic State and had recently spoken out against Iran-backed militias in Iraq.

Egypt is trying to ramp up international pressure on Ethiopia (WSJ) after Addis Ababa said it would begin filling a massive dam on the Nile River this month. Egypt and Sudan fear the project will deprive their citizens of water.
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Kenya: President Uhuru Kenyatta announced that the country will begin a phased reopening (Al Jazeera) after coronavirus lockdowns.

The United Kingdom imposed sanctions on nearly fifty people and organizations accused of “notorious” human rights abuses (BBC), including Russian nationals involved in the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and Saudi nationals involved in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Turkey: Ankara warned that it would retaliate (AP) if the European Union imposes sanctions against Turkey over its dispute with Cyprus, France, and Greece about energy exploration in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will not attend a meeting (NYT) with President Trump and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, widely known as AMLO, in Washington this week. The meeting is meant to celebrate the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, which took effect last week.
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Brazil: President Jair Bolsonaro was tested for the coronavirus (MercoPress) after local media reported that he had symptoms. The results are expected today.